• Gates Foundation boosts agriculture funding and education, Seattle Times, Jan. 5
• The small farmers leading a genuine Green Revolution, Op-ed, The Independent, Dec. 28

• Somali militants force WFP to halt aid work, BBC, Jan. 5
• Lake Chad: Drying, drying, disappearing... IPS, Jan. 6

The weekly post, “In the News”, lists current headlines and news stories on agricultural development in Africa.

• Climate Deal Falls Short of Key Goals, Washington Post, Dec. 19
• New Trade Rules in East Africa Spur Trade in Cereals, allAfrica.com, Dec. 29
• Scientists Fence Off Land for GM Maize Trial in Uganda, allAfrica.com, Dec. 16

• Zimbabwe unveils US$10 Million Inputs Scheme, allAfrica.com, Dec. 14
• Additional U.S.$70 Million in Food Aid to Africa Announced By United States, allAfrica.com, Dec. 9
• Rwanda unveils US$848.1 million agricultural plan, allAfrica.com, Dec. 12

"Africans, on whose shoulders the responsibility of transforming the agriculture rightly falls, have devised a powerful home-grown initiative to address this challenge, the CAADP". - President Paul Kagame, Rwanda. Read more here.

• African Policymakers Urged to Speed Seed to Farmers, SciDev Net, November 23
• Zimbabwe Government Launches Inputs Subsidy, allAfrica.com, November 16
• World Bank to Start Agriculture Fund with $1.5 bn, Reuters, November 24

• Sex for Food in Nyeri Slums, Daily Nation, Oct. 13
• Grain Production Continues Growth After Mixed Decade, Worldwatch Institute, Oct. 29
• Climate Change in Ghana Has Become a Threat to Livelihoods, Modern Ghana.com, Oct. 25

• Seeding a Safer World,by Hillary Rodham Clinton, The Guardian, Oct. 16
• Watch Africa's Emerging Green Revolution, by A. Namanga Ngongi, Des Moines Register, Oct. 11
• Stricken by Drought, the Horn of Africa Prepares for Expected Flooding, allAfrica.com, Oct. 16

• Zambia President Vows to Fight Rural Poverty, allAfrica.com, Oct. 2
• AGRA Launched Soil Management Programme in Mozambique, allAfrica.com, Oct. 2
• UN Warns of Crisis in Pastoral Areas in Kenya Over Drought, allAfrica.com, Oct. 2

This week's edition of "In the News" will highlight the outcomes and documents of recent developments in global hunger and food security.

Release of Obama Administration’s Global hunger and Food Security Initiative

• Global Hunger and Food Security Initiative, Consultation Document
• Briefing by Chief of Staff and Counselor Cheryl Mills on Food Security

G-20 Summit